The missing Rothschild heiress, Irma Leopold, has been found, remarkably unharmed, but claiming to remember nothing. Meanwhile, rumors spread and the Sergeant turns his attention to the College. What secrets lie hidden behind the locked gates? His investigation intensifies Hester's paranoia and she grows certain that the young orphan, Sara, knows something about the disappearance.
Mike finds Rothschild heiress Irma Leopold unharmed but she can remember nothing and leaves the school to join her family. Teacher Dora Lumley finds evidence of anti-Semitism and Sapphism in the belongings of missing school-mistress Greta McCraw, which she gives to her brother Reg. He takes them to Sergeant Bumpher, who then questions Hester about false references from her staff. Hester herself is unnerved when she sees a bearded man who evokes memories of her less than respectable life back in London.—don @ minifie-1